The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown

U.S. gas prices hit their highest level ever in the latest sign that soaring inflation is taking a very serious toll on the U.S. economy. President Biden says the price hikes are now his top domestic priority, laying out new efforts to tame the surge. In Ukraine, the key city of Odesa is under intense bombardment of hypersonic missiles. The U.S. Director of National Intelligence warns Putin is planning for a prolonged conflict and that Putin’s ambitions extend beyond eastern Ukraine.

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The Alabama fugitive and corrections officer are now in custody after a chase in Indiana. Authorities say the corrections officer is currently hospitalized with a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Plus, Russian missile strikes rock Odesa in the latest barrage as Kremlin forces launch new attacks against civilians across Ukraine. Dozens are now feared dead after a Russian bomb obliterated a school where nearly 100 people were sheltering.

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War-ravaged Ukraine is on heightened alert as new warnings emerge that Russia may increase its attacks on Monday. This as fighting ranges on in Mariupol amid new rescue efforts. President Zelensky is calling the ongoing blockade a form of torture that’s left innocent people starving. Our correspondents are standing by in the war zone and at the Pentagon.

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As bloody battles rage on, a new evacuation convoy is heading to the besieged city of Mariupol on a mission to rescue civilians trapped in the city’s bombed-out steel plant. Ukraine says attacks on the complex have been nonstop as Russians try to wipe out Mariupol’s last defenders. Also, Chief Justice John Roberts is calling the leak of the Supreme Court draft opinion absolutely appalling and stressed the leak will not affect the decision of the court.

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A Ukrainian commander says enemy troops have broken into the steel plant where Mariupol’s last defenders and hundreds of civilians are holed up. We’re getting new details on the fighting and whether it could be a final showdown in the besieged city. Also, CNN’s new poll shows most Americans are casting blame on President Biden as their view of the economy is worse than it has been in a decade.

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A bombshell development at the United States Supreme Court as a leaked draft decision reveals the court’s conservatives are now poised to strike down Roe v. Wade.

Plus, as missile strikes hit western Ukraine, Pentagon press secretary John Kirby joins to discuss a possible formal declaration of war by Vladimir Putin.

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We are told Mariupol’s last strong hold for Ukrainian fighters is now under constant fire by the Russians. The attacks are preventing new evacuations from the besieged steel plant after dozens of civilians finally made it out safely and are now recounting the horrors they endured. We discuss the war with the acting U.S. ambassador to Ukraine as American diplomats are now back on the ground inside Ukraine. 

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Heavy shelling right now in eastern Ukraine as Russian forces make new gains at the close of a critical week in the war. In Mariupol, the city’s last defenders are under relentless attack in the besieged steel plant where hundreds of civilians are also trapped. We are following the urgent push to evacuate amidst strong fears of a new attempt by Russia to storm the complex. 

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Russia attacks the Ukrainian capital for the first time in weeks. President Zelensky says five missiles hit Kyiv during the U.N. Secretary General’s visit to the city. Was the Kremlin sending a message? We get an update on the state of the war from the Pentagon press secretary John Kirby.

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U.S. Marine veteran Trevor Reed is finally heading home after being freed by Russia in a prisoner swap. This hour, we ask the State Department about Reed’s long-sought release and whether it will have any impact on the war in Ukraine. Also, Russia is now escalating its economic war with the West by cutting off natural gas supplies to Poland and Bulgaria.

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